Across
- 6. producing a variety of crops
- 7. to change or alter how something works
- 9. a house made out of pairie sod
- 11. This farming practice occurs when farmers only grow enough food for their family.
- 12. He was known as the Empire Builder.
- 14. True or False, Homesteading was easy work
- 15. The place where people buy and sell goods and services.
- 17. many old railroad beds were repurposed for bicycle trails
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- 1. I would join this club or association to learn about new and improved farming methods
- 2. This was the first crop to greatly affected Minnesota's economy.
- 3. this form of transportation greatly helped with the transportation of people, supplies and crops.
- 4. Minnesota has this many counties
- 5. the terrible pest that destroyed millions of acres of farm land during a three year period oin the 1870s
- 8. This 1862 law provided settlers with 160 free acres of land if they take care of it for 5 years.
- 10. He started the first Grange in Minnesota.
- 13. This is someone who hopes to make money selling land.
- 16. This is the process that involves turning over the soil and making it suitable for farming